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NZPA Lancaster A list of 21 names of alleged co-conspirators in a drug ring has been put before the "Mr Asia” trial jury. The Jist includes 15 names of people understood to be Australians or New Zealanders. Some of them may be aliases for one person, according to a prosecution source. It'was given i as a reference schedule tOi the Lancashire meh and women on the jury; who have heard scores of names in the course of the trial. The list has not been read out in open court. However, ! some names of alleged couriers were given to the Court on. Friday by a Queensland woman who admitted carrying heroin into four countries for the syndiKay Margaret Reynolds; aged 31, said she: acted as an
airline-flving heroin carrier in 1978-79. Asked bv the prosecution • council, Mr Michael Maguire, Q.C., .to name the couriers, 'Miss. Reynolds said they •were: ...Wendy . .Shrimpton, Juliet Jacka. Jeff Franks,. Carolyn Calder, Joyce Allez, dnd a woman whom she just knew as Marion. a .... "They "were - all' the couriers I know,” Miss Reynolds told the drugs conspiracy and murder trial. Most are understood to be either Australians ‘or New Zealanders. • Miss Reynolds’returns to the witness boit at the Lancaster Castle Court today, for. the third day.. She is to be cross-exa-mined first by ;Mr Robin Simpson. Q!C.,‘counsel*’ for the alleged ring ace, Alexander Sinclair. Other, defence barristers are likely to follow.
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